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    IIRC Syl says (in Rhythm of War?) that when Surgebinders started appearing, Honor restricted them. In one of the visions Tanavast enumerates the Radiants as a weapon he developed against Rayse.
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    As Brandon said, also StormbringerNightblood. But yes, still rare, depending on how far off-world the Investiture-sucking hordelings are.
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    ... or a Nicroburst. She could force Miles to burn all his gold in a giant burst, if she could touch him while he's healing. Again, without his allomantic powers, Miles would just be a Bloodmaker like Wayne, no longer a compounder (until he swallowed more gold). Presumably you could shoot him repeatedly while he fumbled for a metal vial.
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    Thanks, @Ookla the Married. That's a mistake, in my arrogant opinion. "Eating your Investiture and there's no way to resist" is the Cosmere's version of Kryptonite. Eventually, DC Comics realized that incredibly common Kryptonite was bad, and made it really, really rare, and also let Superman work around it in various ways (e. g. lead shielding). Brandon's well on his way to making the DC Silver Age mistake.
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    I wanted do have a single topic for all the WoBs, so probably the former.
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    The Wobs from Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 are posted. I'd like to discuss them. I hate Discord. The only similar topic on the forum was closed 2018. Is "General Brandon Discussion" the right place to start a new one?
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    Since you asked: bring a larkin/lanceryn with you. Or even just a leecher (who could destroy Miles' gold reserves, preventing him from compounding gold and reducing his effective healing stores enormously).
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    We know that windspren can be "raised" by an Honorspren (or the Stormfather) to become Honorspren themselves. I've assumed (but have no canon evidence) that the other truespren have similar origins.
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    Personally, I'm a stickler (see username).
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    Khriss. No contest. Navani, too. Really, they should work together.
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    I was perhaps misinterpreting what you wrote. To me specifically, "made of Investiture" means "... and not of matter consisting of axions [Cosmere atoms]."
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    I just saw this mentioned in another (non-Sanderson) forum: "Journey Before Destination" is a rule for writing fiction, meaning that it isn't about the trope (boy meets girl, hero overcomes enemy, the villain was really saving the world), it's about how it's written, how the tale is told. Is the First Ideal Part 3 really just a rule for fiction writing?
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    Hoid doesn't mind looking foolish at all. He's a jester by trade, going back to before he existed (as Hoid), when he was Topaz in Dragonsteel Prime.
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    Just for the record, Honor was not splintered. Tanavast was killed, but Honor still exists as of WaT, right up until it becomes part of Retribution (and we have a hint that this merger won't last). Fake bodies that can bear human children? I think they're really bodies made using Investiture.
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    They don't consume spren in other forms, or human souls, either. I'd call that Investiture in spiritual form. Hmm .. they don't consume the Sleepless' ability to coordinate their hordelings, either. Based on that example, I doubt they can consume allomancy.
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    But you have to be in particular region of Sel, or have a bottle of purified Dor (or the equivalent) lying around.
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    Well, but remember her other Surge is Soulcasting. She can literally manifest matter (by transforming air into it). At the high end, one suspects her Surges blend.
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    Saying "It's a metaphor" doesn't rule out something being "physically" real in the Cognitive Realm. Metaphors are a thing cognition uses.
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    Would musicspren follow Hoid around? Would a Rhyshadium be attracted to him because their symbionts are?
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    I'm pretty sure we aren't told enough to identify the entity at the end, for the same reason it's so gloomy: it isn't the end of the story. It's the end of Book One of a series.
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    I'm not sure Xisis thinks Frost is dead. I think he's just taunting Starling, because he's a cruel being.
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    The statements are not contradictory. "Most" armies break at by 30-40%. "Many" do so at 10%. Most > Many.
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    Both Roshar and Scadrial, as of "now", are modern worlds with modern societies, @Aliroz-The-Confused. They have science, they have industry (especially Scadrial), they have widespread literacy (yes, even the Vorin), they have nation-states. Living in a fantasy universe doesn't change that.
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    Um, no. If you shoot a Radiant in the head with a modern sniper round, the head explodes. Radiants can heal a lot, but they aren't Hoid, who canonically can heal when only a cell culture is left. Just asking: you folks do understand how fast modern missiles are? No Windrunner could match speeds with one to touch it and Lash it. Even if you think they can reach high Mach numbers (they can't) their reaction time isn't good enough. Also: there are only ~300 Windrunners by WaT times. Some nice aluminum alloy casing on bullets, and two rounds destroy Plate. Just put aluminum needles in your claymore mine, and kill multiple Radiants by pushing one button. Some of the messages here assume the US Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors would be stupid and unable to learn. That is a bad assumption. (Note: if a Soldier selflessly tries to save someone, risking her own life, she might end up a Windrunner herself. Spren don't care about nationality.) It's very standard military/political strategy to find local allies. The US forces would almost certainly ally with the Alethi coalition against the Singers, or vice-versa.
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    Night blood killed a Vessel. It didn't even harm the Shard.
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